TOM BROWN'S FIELD GUIDE TO WILDERNESS SURVIVAL by Tom Brown Jnr. 1983 / 276 pages.

This long awaited handbook by the director of the world-famous Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School is the first of its kind. Like FOXFIRE it preserves knowledge that was in danger of being lost forever, but reaches even deeper into the past. It is about the basics. In it you will find much that was forgotten: the most ancient and essential skills of humankind, presented in a comprehensive and usable new four-part wilderness survival library, of which this first volume forms the heart. 'How to build natural shelters in plains, woods or deserts. How to get safe drinking water from plants, trees, the sun of the earth itself. How to make fire without matches and maintain it in any weather. How to find, stalk, kill and prepare animals for food. The "big four" edible plants, and hundreds of others useful for both nutrition and medicine.'